NewsWrap for the week ending June 7, 2014
SUMMARY
Behind the People's Backs - Lawmakers in Slovakia overwhelmingly vote to constitutionally ban marriage equality …
Belly of the Bear - same-gender couples can now marry at British consulates in 23 countries – including Russia …
Almost Losing Count - a federal judge makes Wisconsin the latest U.S. state with an unconstitutional ban on civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples …
Final Holdout - seven couples challenge the marriage equality ban in North Dakota, which had been the only state in the union without such a lawsuit …
The More the Married-er - Idaho's governor asks the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court to meet en banc rather than assign a more typical three-judge panel to hear that state's marriage equality case …
Marry Up and Wait - Utah gets a stay of a judge's order to recognize the marriages of more than 1300 same-gender couples who legally wed during the 17-day period they could in the state from late December through early January …
Before Somebody Drops A House On You Too - a Florida judge rules that three anti-equality groups have no standing to defend that state's marriage ban …
Not A NOM To Stand On - the U.S. Supreme Court affirms a lower court ruling that the notoriously anti-equality National Organization for Marriage (NOM) had no standing to intervene in the Oregon case, and NOM loses a lawsuit against the I.R.S. after claiming that the agency intentionally published the names and amounts of its donors …
Proudly Beyond Expectations - thousands celebrate a reasonably-peaceful first Pride event in Cyprus …
Solid Judgement - Puerto Rico's governor taps out lesbian Maite Oronoz Rodríguez to become the first openly-queer judge on any U.S. state or territorial Supreme Court …
The Next Generation - Peruvian immigrant Robert Garcia becomes the first out, the first Latino, and the youngest-ever Mayor of Long Beach, California ….
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Labels: bisexual, Florida, gay, homophobia, homosexual, IDAHO, lesbian, LGBT, marriage equality, North Dakota, Russia, Slovakia, transgender, transsexual, UK, Utah, Wisconsin
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Late-Breaking News Bulletin -- Wisconsin: A total of 283 same-gender couples were married as Milwaukee and Dane County Clerks' offices stayed open late on Friday June 6th and opened for more marriage applications on the 7th. Several more counties began issuing marriage licenses on Monday morning the 8th, even as State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen petitioned the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the marriages during the state's appeal.
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